With Microsoft now porting the Win32 API onto Linux does this means that there will be a flood of windows programs available for Linux. As good a linux is at the server end even Linus has said Linux isn't ready for the desktop because it can be still unfriendly to a newbie. As such prehaps the ability to have office etc running on Linux might help make the tranistion into the market place a bit easier Then agin we can always try to make people like startoffice or applixware. You have to admit that Windows is still dominent on the desktop and anything that allows linux to provide easier access to this might be helpful. I don't like M$ os much as the next person but if they make there product open source (I know likely as hell freezing over) that it just might help. There are alternative as we all know like Wine (and maybe VMWARE) but they either have don't have full application support or take a large performance hit. Just my 2 pence.
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With Microsoft now porting the Win32 API onto Linux does this means that there will be a flood of windows programs available for Linux. As good a linux is at the server end even Linus has said Linux isn't ready for the desktop because it can be still unfriendly to a newbie. As such prehaps the ability to have office etc running on Linux might help make the tranistion into the market place a bit easier Then agin we can always try to make people like startoffice or applixware. You have to admit that Windows is still dominent on the desktop and anything that allows linux to provide easier access to this might be helpful. I don't like M$ os much as the next person but if they make there product open source (I know likely as hell freezing over) that it just might help. There are alternative as we all know like Wine (and maybe VMWARE) but they either have don't have full application support or take a large performance hit. Just my 2 pence.